11:13 PM,
Aug. 30, 2013

Mario Coniglione

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When a Freehold Township couple hired a Staten Island man to help modify their mortgage, he ended up pocketing nearly three years worth of payments on their house instead, authorities said.

Mario Coniglione, 50, stole more than $100,000 from the couple as he asked them to redirect their monthly mortgage and escrow payments to him so he could serve as their broker, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office. When the couple's lender initiated foreclosure proceedings, Coniglione attempted to file an emergency bankruptcy petition to ...